Tues.’s Devo - Have Patience to the Very End

Read: Job 28:1-30:31; 2 Corinthians 2:12-17; Psalm 42:1-11; Proverbs 22:7
Job uses natural things like gold and silver to represent the wisdom that God hides. Man doesn’t comprehend its worth but it is the answers of life. He, like Solomon concludes that the fear of the Lord is wisdom and to shun evil is understanding. That is worth contemplating.
Job reminisces his past when everything was going well and he walked in God’s blessings. He was strong and God was his intimate friend. There are few people in the Old Testament that had a relationship with the Lord. Abraham was a friend of God and so was David, but most of the people feared God as their judge and ruler. Job referred to God being his intimate friend. He remembered what it was like to walk in God’s favor and blessing and in man’s favor and blessing. Now, he had none of those and he had lost his dignity and respect on the earth. When he prays, he doesn’t hear a response. It makes me wonder what God was feeling at this time. God knew the end of the story and how wonderful it was going to end.
Job was a type of Jesus in his suffering. It pleased God to bruise Jesus because he knew of the glory he would be able to bless him with. God always sees the good in the end and not just the pain in the process.
Paul saw the same thing when he said that God always leads us to triumph. We might smell like death to some but life to others.
In our Psalm, David felt the same that Job did. He felt alone, forgotten, and oppressed by his enemy but he concluded that he put his trust in the Lord.
God, no matter what we are going through, we choose to put our trust in you. You alone have the keys to life.